John Shelby Spong Quotes

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

John Shelby Spong

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Down

• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Art
  • Saying
  • Gossip

• Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

  

  Sal Mineo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Doubt
  • Listen
  • Instincts

• The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Power
  • Future

• Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Suffering
  • Politics
  • Broken

• When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity - what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Life
  • Mind

• I actually consider myself as totally privileged to be able to serve science and medicine in a global fashion, because science and medicine know no boundaries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Science
  • Fashion
  • Myself

• Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • People
  • Creative
  • Awesome

• There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Financial
  • Debt

• These were not religious fanatics, I saw, not mindless servants or self-punishing ascetics, but were, instead, row upon row of intelligent, questioning, alert young men and women.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Religious

• Caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi.

  

  Lucretius

• It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Profound

• I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Work

• It's always very special for me to work Chicago. Both of the record companies I was with, early on, were based in Chicago. The music was always huge there.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Work
  • Music
  • Chicago

• A lot of people don't like to win. They actually don't know how to win, and they don't like to win because down deep inside they don't want to win.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Deep

• For me, it's infinitely more interesting to read or watch a character making decisions they think are right, but the audience knows differently, and seeing that disconnect. The only way characters can grow and learn is by making the wrong decisions and then learning from them.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Learning

• Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Men
  • Heaven

• In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • World
  • Science

• I just fell into the acting thing as kind of an accident.

  

  Mark Wahlberg

• In a new interview, Newt Gingrich says he cheated on two of his wives because he was too consumed with love for his country. Yeah, apparently he misunderstood the phrase, 'Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Country
  • Interview
  • Allegiance

• The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

  

  John Shelby Spong